BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T163000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20230405T033146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T040337Z UID:10007245-1685026800-1685032200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Benoit Challand – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by the THI Research Cluster Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East and Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology \nProviding a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011\, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East\, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation in the region in 2011. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship and marginalization in Yemen and Tunisia\, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation. He argues that a new collective imaginary\, or the collective force of the people\, emerged as a force\, representing itself as the sovereign power that could decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen\, Tunisia\, but also elsewhere in the Middle East\, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence\, representation\, and democracy. It compares the post-2011 efforts to build a decentralized political order in Tunisia with the calls for federalism in Yemen\, and the shared demands for democratic accountability over the means of coercion. \nBenoit Challand is Associate Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research\, New York. He is author of the books Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, and Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been translated into Arabic and he has numerous co-authored publications such as The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance (co-edited with F. Bicchi and S. Heydemann\, Routledge 2016)\, and Imagining Europe: Myth\, Memory and Identity\, co-authored with Chiara Bottici (Cambridge University Press 2013). He is also interested in democratic theory\, Western European Marxism\, and settler colonialism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/may-25-benoit-challand-violence-and-representation-in-the-arab-uprisings/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T133000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20230420T161633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T163639Z UID:10006114-1682596800-1682602200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roberta Wue - Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait DESCRIPTION:The sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20)\, these curious and vivid portraits function in a new space of intercultural commerce and exchange\, as articulated through their unusual materials\, crafting\, and authorship. \nRoberta Wue works on late Qing and early twentieth-century China\, with a particular interest in painting\, photography\, print culture\, and intermediality. Her work examines issues of audience and picturing\, while analyzing genre\, heterogeneity and hybridity\, seriality\, and movement in modern Chinese art and visual culture. She is the author of Art Worlds: Artists\, Images\, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai. \n\nFree and open to the campus community and the public. \nPresented by the Center for World History. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roberta-wue-inventing-the-chinese-craftsman-amoy-chinqua-and-the-18th-century-export-portrait/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T183000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20221005T204925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T205158Z UID:10006019-1667322000-1667327400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz - “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action” DESCRIPTION:This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings\, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia\, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed\, to the ilustrado-led Propaganda Movement’s political argumentation against Spain\, and to the political mobilization and organizing of the Katipunan and the First Philippine Republic. It incorporates the “periphery” into our understanding of Pan-Asianism to correct our exclusively intellectual historical and Northeast-Asia-centric understandings of Pan-Asianism. It shows that the revolutionary First Philippine Republic’s foreign collaboration represents the first instance of fellow Pan-Asianists lending material aid toward anti-colonial revolution against a Western power (rather than overthrow of a domestic dynasty) and harnessing transnational Pan-Asian networks of support\, activism\, and association toward doing so. \nOriginally from the Philippines\, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge\, in the UK\, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Prior to Cambridge\, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian and International History at Yale University. Her first book\, Asian Place\, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution\, 1887-1912\, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020\, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organising of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. Her broad research interests center on global intellectual history and Southeast Asian environmental\, cultural\, and social history. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. This event is presented by the Center for World History. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz-the-idea-asia-in-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-philippine-political-thought-and-action/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20200128T214748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T002809Z UID:10006825-1581078600-1581084000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Hong Kong on the Brink DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades\, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. \nJeff Wasserstrom\, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987\, will draw on his work as a specialist in the history of anti-authoritarian movements in various parts of the world and his work on global cities of Asia. The presentation will showcase ideas in his new short book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink\, which publishes February 11\, 2020\, in the Columbia Global Reports series. Books will be available ahead of the official publication date. \nDetails on the book are here \nJeffrey Wasserstrom (UCSC History B.A.\, 1982) is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. \nSponsored by the History Department and East Asian Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-on-the-brink-a-talk-by-jeffrey-wasserstrom/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-28-at-1.42.44-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20191218T203918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191218T204038Z UID:10006817-1579104000-1579109400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Urmi Engineer Willoughby - Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South\, 1718-1860 DESCRIPTION:The Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture \nIn this talk\, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture\, development\, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, and show how economic and agricultural systems associated with white settlement and plantation slavery fostered the spread of malaria and yellow fever. Malaria grew endemic in new settlements and plantations as newcomers cleared forests\, drained swamps\, and grew rice and maize. Yellow fever caused seasonal epidemics in the built environment of New Orleans\, as a result of ecological changes caused by sugar plantations and urban construction. Studying these processes in a global framework\, this project considers the Gulf South region as a representation of global patterns of development and ecological change in fostering the growth of malaria and yellow fever in diverse geographical and historical contexts. \nUrmi Engineer Willoughby is the current Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at the Huntington Library and the author of Yellow Fever\, Race\, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (LSU Press\, 2017). She completed her Ph.D. in History at UCSC. \n  \nThis lecture is made possible by the generosity of Thom Gentle (Cowell ’69\, History)\, a pioneer class alumnus who established The Thom Gentle Endowment for History to support student awards in environmental history as well as lectures of distinguished speakers with an environmental emphasis. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/urmi-engineer-willoughby-cultivating-malaria-in-the-gulf-south-1718-1860/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20190502T184145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T184221Z UID:10005613-1557322200-1557327600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire\, Disease\, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam DESCRIPTION:“The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire\, Disease\, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam” \nThe History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-vann-great-hanoi-rat-hunt-empire-disease-modernity-french-colonial-vietnam/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20180921T163216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T213308Z UID:10005515-1541683800-1541689200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rachel Gross\, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century\, emphasizing sustainability\, local produce\, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine\, American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts\, build community in the present\, and pass on their values to future generations. \n \n  \n  \nProf. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion. She received her PhD from Princeton University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-gross-deli/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pickles_web-events.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T153000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20170302T195421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T195421Z UID:10005339-1489066200-1489073400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States” DESCRIPTION:Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge\, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions\, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales\, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies\, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies\, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields. \nZachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine\, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism\, Communism\, Islam\, and the Egyptian Working Class\, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association\, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America\, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zachary-lockman-adventures-in-field-building-on-the-history-of-area-studiesmiddle-east-studies-in-the-united-states-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Lockman-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161117T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161117T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20161101T171758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161101T171758Z UID:10005295-1479389400-1479394800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marc Matera: "The Global 1930s: The International Decade" DESCRIPTION:The 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials\, jack-booted\, brown-shirted German fascists\, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture\, but a Europe- and North American-centered view obscures and distorts the broader global context of which they were an integral part. A global perspective on the 1930s not only decenters Europe and the United States but also reveals that\, despite incipient or resurgent expressions of the national principle\, internationalist impulses and transnational connections better characterize the dynamics of the period. \nThis talk comes from the forthcoming book\, The Global 1930s\, which Professor Matera coauthored with Professor Susan Kingsley Kent. The book treats the 1930s as the international decade\, focusing particularly on internationalism—as Western imperialists\, socialists and communists\, and anticolonial activists/intellectuals conceptualized it—to foregrounds the role that imperialism played in fostering global relations at the same time that it destabilized the European world order. Transcolonial connections and anticolonial internationalisms motivated\, kindled\, and inspired developments that set the stage for decolonization and movements for international standards for human and civil rights that are usually associated with the decades following the Second World War. Postwar conceptions of development\, citizenship\, and sovereignty\, however attenuated\, emerged through and in response to the struggles of colonized and semicolonial populations across the global South and in imperial metropoles during the 1930s. \nOrganized by the IHR Research Center for World History. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-matera-the-global-1930s-the-international-decade-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Marc-Matera-The-Global-1930s-The-International-Decade-1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T180000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20160519T215255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160519T215255Z UID:10006384-1464364800-1464372000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: "Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website 'Everyday Life in Mao's China'" DESCRIPTION:Covell Meyskens\, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School\, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao’s China which currently houses over 5\,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website’s origins\, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history\, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct comparable digital projects on other research topics. \nCovell Meyskens is a historian of twentieth century China with a particular interest in industrialization\, revolution\, and everyday life. His current book project is tentatively titled “Securing Maoist China: The Cold War\, Late Development\, and Everyday Life in the Third Front\, 1964-1980.” It is the first history of China’s largest ever industrial defense project – the Third Front. The book analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized hinterland regions in order to protect China from American and Soviet threats. Meyskens is also engaged in ongoing research on the history of China’s Railroad Corps\, hydropower in Hubei province\, and automobiles in China. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program\, History Department\, and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-the-past-the-making-of-the-website-everyday-life-in-maos-china-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/unnamed.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T153000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20160519T220303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160519T220303Z UID:10005244-1464098400-1464103800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Camille Fauroux: "Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)" DESCRIPTION:During the Second World War\, 50\,000 to 100\,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and preserve their status as mothers and housewives\, the National-socialist state chose to rely on the forced labor of millions of foreign men and women from occupied territories who where brought to the Reich. Drawing from a case study on the high-tech electronic industry in Berlin between 1940 and 1945\, I reveal how French women’s “voluntary work” became more and more coerced as the war went on. Segregated housing in camps ensured a tight control of these workers as well as it prevented them from founding families on the German soil\, but it also provided unexpected space for solidarity and resistance to forced labor. \nCamille Fauroux is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. This year\, she is a visiting research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation\, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lee Downs\, examines French women’s labor in National-socialist Germany between 1940 and 1945. Her research interests include forced labor\, migration\, sexuality\, and the transnational construction of gender. \nLight refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camille-fauroux-framing-gender-across-boundaries-french-women-at-work-in-berlins-war-industry-1940-1945-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Fauroux-talk_375w1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20160225T195419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T195419Z UID:10005207-1457445600-1457449200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sugar Beets\, Biocolonialism\, and Memory in the American West DESCRIPTION:The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History \nBernadette Jeanne Pérez\nPh.D. Candidate\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities \nWhat can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science\, capitalism\, and American settler colonialism? In this talk\, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals\, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution\, and mid-twentieth century industry histories\, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers\, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples\, subjugate non-white workers\, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945\, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold\,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism\, race\, and Manifest Destiny. \nBernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation\, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields\, 1900-1945\,” is a social\, cultural\, environmental\, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change\, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award\, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sugar-beets-biocolonialism-and-memory-in-the-american-west-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20150513T190818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150513T190818Z UID:10005108-1432044000-1432047600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces\, 1919-1962" DESCRIPTION:David Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. \nThe talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising\, the Somme and the Politics of Memory\, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in the history of the Irish in America\, the 1920s through the early 1960s. How (and by whom) was the 1916 Rising remembered in this period? Providing some answers to this question can tell us a great deal about the striking diversity of memory practices\, while also shedding light on important aspects of Irish American (and American) life in these decades. \nA once powerful Irish American nationalist movement shrank dramatically in this period. Nonetheless\, the Rising continued to be remembered (differently) by Catholic churchmen\, Irish American labor leaders\, African American nationalists\, and Hollywood. The telling of the Easter Rising story\, Brundage argues\, had a kind of modular character. That is\, narratives of 1916\, frequently marked by stirring examples of idealism\, courage\, and sacrifice\, could be lifted out of their specifically Irish context and used to legitimize or inspire other sorts of movements and agendas—or simply to entertain. Remembering 1916 in America involved a diverse array of people\, practices\, and motives\, and its analysis has the potential to shed light on important mid-twentieth century topics ranging from African American nationalism to representations of Ireland and the Irish in American popular culture. \nLight refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-brundage-remembering-1916-in-america-the-easter-risings-many-faces-1919-1962-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/David-BRundage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150421T153000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20150413T221401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150413T221401Z UID:10006072-1429624800-1429630200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ernesto Chávez: "My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro\, Noël Sullivan\, and the Negotiation of a Catholic/Mexican/Queer Identity DESCRIPTION:Ernesto Chávez\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas\, El Paso\, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center\, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer codes in the early- and mid-twentieth-century letters of silent screen actor\, Ramón Novarro\, and arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. This free\, public lecture takes place Tuesday\, April 21\, 2015\, at 2:00pm in Humanities 1\, Room 520. \nIn this presentation\, Ernesto Chávez offers preliminary thoughts on materials pertaining to Ramón Novarro\, the Mexican-born\, gay\, silent screen actor and devout Roman Catholic. Novarro\, the subject of Professor Chávez’s current book project\, was perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur\, which propelled him to stardom. The bulk of his career occurred at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and after his stardom waned\, he continued to act in movies and television until his violent murder at the hands of a hustler in 1968. The manner of his death ensured that he was outed posthumously. Yet\, if one reads interviews with him and letters that he wrote to friends\, queer codes that deflected his homosexuality emerge. Such is the case with the 102 letters that he wrote to Bay Area arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. The letters\, which are housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library\, are the basis of this talk. In these missives\, Novarro expressed his devout Catholicism to Sullivan\, who was both gay and Catholic. The letters provide insight into a platonic relationship between two gay men in the early to mid-twentieth century and allow us to glimpse an intimacy that was mitigated by religiosity\, but that nonetheless had at its core a common homosexuality. \nErnesto Chávez HeadshotErnesto Chávez\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas\, El Paso\, is currently a Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and Institute of American Cultures. His work intersects Chicano/a\, Latino/a\, and Borderlands History and examines the history of the American Southwest\, focusing on the matrix of race\, class\, and sexuality throughout the ethnic Mexican and Latino American past. In 2014\, he received the American Historical Association’s Equity Award. \nClick here for more info \nThe Chicano Latino Research Center is proud to cosponsor this free\, public lecture with the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ernesto-chavez-my-dear-noel-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150218T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150218T160000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20150211T230920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T230920Z UID:10006004-1424268000-1424275200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Manu Bhagavan - Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India\, UNRRA\, and the new internationalism DESCRIPTION:Please join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College: \nToward universal relief and rehabilitation: India\, UNRRA\, and the new \n“India” had been involved in the United Nations even in its wartime incarnation\, inasmuch as the Crown Government of the colonized region brought the territory into the Second World War and\, in turn\, voted to support various institutions created to deal with the challenges wrought by the conflict. Among the most prominent of these was the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA)\, the mission of which was to aid countries negatively impacted by the military campaigns. The British Government of India strongly signaled its support even as the subcontinent weathered the effects of one the worst famines ever encountered in the region. UNRRA was based in the United States and led by several men who considered themselves friends of India\, most notably famed New Yorkers Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia. Over the next several years\, UNRRA pushed to create an Indian office and to incorporate Indians into administration based in the US\, in a good faith effort to circumvent charges of imperial complicity. So the agency leadership was especially surprised when they ran into resistance from India’s anti-colonial icons. UNRRA was too blind to the pernicious stranglehold of imperialism the Indians believed\, and so had to be challenged\, even as it was admired. The encounter thus exemplifies colonial India’s efforts to challenge and undo Great Power/Global North/Western control of UN bureaucracies from the outset\, and to reset both the tone and the substance of international relations by insisting on shared responsibilities and mutual respect. \nManu Bhagavan is the Chair of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy institute and a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is a specialist on modern India\, focusing on the twentieth-century late-colonial and post-colonial periods\, with particular interests in human rights\, (inter)nationalism\, and questions of sovereignty. His most recent publication is The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (Haper Collins\, 2012). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manu-bhagavan-toward-universal-relief-and-rehabilitation-india-unrra-and-the-new-internationalism-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20150203T195755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150203T195755Z UID:10005043-1423843200-1423848600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome” DESCRIPTION:In Republican Rome\, birds had served as the messengers of the gods\, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE\, these same birds began to speak plain Latin\, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could understand. On closer examination\, however\, these talking birds turn out to be transmitting a much more troubling message about the constitution of the Roman body politic at a moment of uncertainty and rapid change. \nMartin Devecka is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University who will join the Classical Studies faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2015-16. He is a cultural historian with a special interest in applying the methods of sociology to the ancient world. Current projects include a comparative history of ruins\, a historical zoology of the Roman Empire\, and an investigation of peripatetic attitudes toward technology. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/polly-want-a-caesar-talking-birds-and-prophetic-birds-in-early-imperial-rome-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T180000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20140512T225258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140512T225258Z UID:10004939-1400688000-1400695200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism DESCRIPTION:Stories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves.  In modern times\, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources and bio-power in their territory by adopting singular\, linear histories of the state\, nation and civilization.  But\, ironically\, just as these singular stories were becoming dominant\, the world was globalizing more actively than ever.  The stories themselves have come to be shaped by global forces. \nWhile the historical enterprise of collective formation – in which distinctive stories are developed within the framework of single states – remains important for the building of local\, national or regional communities\, these enterprises can no longer deny the cosmopolitan circulations that condition them.  This is especially so now that planetary sustainability is at stake.  And indeed\, the most significant Eurasian historical developments have tended to be circulatory and shared.  The early modern era is a particularly fruitful period to consider\, because the distinction between the local and the universal was less pronounced; state territoriality and culture were not conflated.  Can we recapture those kinds of stories?  How might social and political theory look if our histories were not linear\, exclusive accounts of nations and civilizations\, but rather dispersed\, cross-referenced\, mutually shaping and shared histories? \nPrasenjit Duara is Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Asia Research Institute and of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore\, where he has taught since 2008.  Prior to that\, he was professor and chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Rescuing History from the Nation (1995)\, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003)\, and Culture\, Power and the State: Rural North China\, 1900-1942 (1988)\, which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His most recent work is The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been widely translated into Chinese\, Japanese and Korean. He will speak from forthcoming book The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge\, 2014). \nSponsored by the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/circulatory-and-competitive-histories-temporal-foundations-for-cosmopolitanism-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131114T153000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20131104T224447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T224447Z UID:10004865-1384437600-1384443000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg" DESCRIPTION:In August 1870 the Prussians and their German allies laid siege to the French city of Strasbourg and bombed the city center\, killing and wounding civilian men\, women and children. The siege gave rise to the first instance of wartime international humanitarian aid to civilians. This talk examines the experience of that aid from the perspective of the recipients as well as the ethical debates over the city’s continued resistance in the face of overwhelming force.\n\nRachel Chrastil joined the faculty at Xavier University in 2005\, after receiving her Ph.D. in History at Yale University.  Since then\, she has written two books on the civilian experience of war\, including The Siege of Strasbourg (forthcoming\, Harvard University Press).  She has been a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and an invited speaker on humanitarianism\, human rights and historical memory.  She currently holds a Xavier University Faculty Fellowship to promote quantitative literacy across the curriculum. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-chrastil-inventing-humanitarianism-gender-and-the-civilian-male-in-besiege-strasbourg-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T183000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20121031T163852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121031T163852Z UID:10005239-1352307600-1352313000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:Robert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought\, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. The recipient of several honors\, including election as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Goldman currently serves as editor of “South Asia Across the Disciplines\,” a monograph series published jointly by the presses of Columbia University\, University of Chicago\, and the University of California. \nGoldman will also be speaking to the undergraduate class (LIT61P) on the Valmiki-­‐ Ramayana from 2-­‐3:10 in Baskin Auditorium\, also on November 7th. \nRobert P. Goldman Professor of Sanskrit University of California\, Berkeley \nThis public lecture is sponsored by the Departments of History\, Literature\, and Classics. For more information or accommodation needs\, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-greatest-story-never-told-in-the-west-the-ramaya%e1%b9%87a-and-the-cultural-universe-of-south-and-southeast-asia-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111129T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111129T160000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20111116T204729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T204729Z UID:10004635-1322575200-1322582400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Derr\, Talk title TBA DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nJennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A.\, Georgetown University; Ph.D.\, Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history\, African history\, Ottoman Empire\, early Islamic history. Fellow\, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies\, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo\, University of California at Davis\, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal\, Middle East Report\, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-derr-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20111116T203847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203847Z UID:10004943-1321538400-1321545600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giancarlo Casale\, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire" DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nGiancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire\, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography\, global exploration\, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book\, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration\,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal\, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers\, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project\, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity\,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology\, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region\, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giancarlo-casale-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20111007T194045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111007T194045Z UID:10004864-1318435200-1318438800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present\nFrom Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century \nBridges of Reform\n\nShana Bernstien\nSouthwestern University\nAuthor of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-civil-defense-to-civil-rights-the-growth-of-jewish-american-interracial-activism-in-los-angeles-in-the-20th-century-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T153000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20110406T191803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110406T191803Z UID:10004793-1302789600-1302795000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Sánchez-Eppler: "In the Archives of Childhood" DESCRIPTION:Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition\, Feminism\, and the Politics of the Body (California\, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago\, 2005)\, and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center where she is completing a project on manuscript books entitled The Unpublished Republic: Manuscript Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States\, and beginning a new one\, In the Archives of Childhood\, which probes the relations between our different ways of holding the past. Her talk at Santa Cruz draws from the introduction to this new project\, examining the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. \n“Archive Fever” as Jacques Derrida describes it\, epitomizes the infectious desire to locate and possess origins. For scholarship in the humanities the “archival turn” proves to have much in common with the study of childhood. Both have been there all along: the repositories of our cultural and personal pasts. In many ways\, for each of us\, childhood is the archive\, a treasure-box of the formative and the forgotten. Yet until the last few decades both our archives and our childhoods have remained largely under-theorized sites of origin. My talk will examine the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. Childhood manuscripts and documents demonstrate the potential of archival work for gaining access to children’s voices\, experiences\, and everyday life. Looking beyond this utility\, I hope to suggest how an attention to childhood may help rethink the nature of archival records\, organization\, and purpose itself. The traces of childhood found in archives tend toward the ephemeral—the scrap and the scribble far more likely than the tome—and thus puts pressure on the claims and nature of preservation and valuation. What constitutes the trivial as trivial? If childhood is ephemeral by nature—a stage to be outgrown—then what can it teach us about the archival tasks of keeping and cataloging? Age is not generally a classificatory category for archival holdings\, a fact that exemplifies the expressions of power at stake in the way knowledge is organized. Children tend to appear in archives in two ways\, on the fringes of collections of individual or family papers\, a residue of domestic life that accompanies the valuable work of adults\, for whose prominence these materials have been saved; and in the records of those institutions charged with the protection\, punishment\, and education of the young. Thus to think about childhood in the archives is to think about the tensions and collaborations between individual and institutional frames\, affection and control\, fame and loss. This will be a speculative discussion\, but one that theorizes from particular childhood stuff. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-sanchez-eppler-in-the-archives-of-childhood-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T170000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20110121T184107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110121T184107Z UID:10004718-1296144000-1296147600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Peter Blickle: “New Developments in the Discourse of Heimat” DESCRIPTION:Today\, just as during any other period since the end of the eighteenth century\, the idea of Heimat (home\, homeland) is a central part of German-speaking people’s attempts to make sense of the world they live in. The regressive aspects of the idea are troubling. Any concrete interaction with the idea of Heimat in the political realm has\, historically speaking\, served sooner or later to further exclusions. And all too often the idea of Heimat has assisted in more than mere exclusions. \nStarting with definitions from his book Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (2002)\, Professor Blickle look at examples of such excluding uses of the traditional idea of Heimat. He then goes on to investigate more recent uses. They show the idea of Heimat in a new light – at home in the margins and including the Other rather than excluding it. \nOver the past decade and a half fundamental shifts have occurred in the uses of Heimat. For many\, Heimat has become mobile and unpredictable. Heimat surprises. And the fundamental feminization of the traditional Heimat has given way to more open\, more ambiguous\, more searching\, and sometimes even more playful interactions with the world. \nPeter Blickle received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995. He is the author of two scholarly books\, one in English\, Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (Camden House 2002)\, and one in German\, Maria Beig und die Kunst der scheinbaren Kunstlosigkeit (Maria Beig and the Art of Appearing Primitive\, Edition Isele 1997). His book on Heimat (home\, homeland) has established itself as one of the standard works on this German concept. He is also the author of a novel\, Blaulicht im Nebel (Ambulance in Fog\, Edition Isele 2002)\, and he translated Rosina Lippi’s novel Homestead into German (Im Schatten der Drei Schwestern\, Rowohlt/Wunderlich 2002). Together with Jaimy Gordon\, he translated Maria Beig’s novel Lost Weddings into English (Persea Books 1990). For his creative works in German\, he received the Irseer Pegasus Award (2004)\, the Robert L. Kahn Poetry Award (2007)\, and the Geertje Potash Prose Prize (2009). He is professor of German at Western Michigan University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-blickle-new-developments-in-the-discourse-of-heimat-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101104T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101104T173000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20101102T191631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101102T191631Z UID:10004518-1288886400-1288891800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest" DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series:\nMario Garcia: “Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian’s Quest” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mario-garcia-rediscovering-and-rethinking-the-chicano-movement-a-historians-quest-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101026T173000 DTSTAMP:20260530T141742 CREATED:20101026T041431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101026T041431Z UID:10004634-1288108800-1288114200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Mraz: "Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments\, Icons\, Documents" DESCRIPTION:John Mraz will examine the photography made during the armed struggle\, 1910-1920\, through a profusely illustrated lecture. He will then place particular emphasis on identifying the commitment of photographers to different groups in Mexico by looking at five Revolutionary icons. \nJohn Mraz is a Research Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Puebla\, Mexico. \nThis series is sponsored by: the UC Santa Cruz Chicano/Latino Research Center; UCSC Departments of History; History of Art and Visual Culture; Latin American and Latino Studies; and by Oakes College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-mraz-photographing-the-mexican-revolution-commitments-icons-documents-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR